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Jaffna came alive to the sounds and colours of marching bands, tramping feet, festive banners and buoyant balloons, as Commercial Bank’s Savings Fiesta stimulated the capital of the northern peninsula on Saturday, 15^th June. Senior corporate management of Sri Lanka’s largest private bank actively participated in the events, which included a Savings Walk by staff, an inter-school band competition at the Alfred Durayappah Stadium, the release of balloons in the Blue and White livery of Commercial Bank, and the presentation of gifts to customers who opened new accounts. At Killinochchi on the northern mainland, the Commercial Bank branch organised an art competition for children in support of these activities. The principal objective of the Savings Fiesta is to promote savings and create an opportunity for the Bank to generate greater awareness of the many products and services it offers. All new accounts opened with Commercial Bank in June 2013 are eligible for an ATM cum Debit Card free of charge as well as gifts. Pictured here are some of the events held in Jaffna as part of the Savings Fiesta.

Art and essay competitions for children and musical shows featuring popular artistes were the principal activities at select branches of Commercial Bank on Saturday 8^th June, as the Bank’s ‘Savings Fiesta’ entered its second colourful week.

An event organised by the Galle Regional Office of Commercial Bank drew hundreds of people including many distinguished Galle residents such as academics, doctors and other professionals, to the Galle Town Hall. The Bank’s Regional Manager of the Southern Region Mr. Delakshan Hettiarachchi conducted a lecture on the “Importance of Saving” while Professor Nishantha Nanayakkara of the Moratuwa University delivered a lecture on Motivation. The Bank’s Managing Director/CEO Mr. Ravi Dias addressed the gathering and presented gifts to the children who won the essay competition.

Commercial Bank’s Matara City branch and Ratnapura branch conducted art competitions for children as part of the Savings Fiesta. Similar events will take place at Commercial Bank’s Jaffna and Killinochchi branches on Saturday, 15^th June.

Apart from the main events, branches in the Southern region as well as around the country conducted their own activities for the Savings Fiesta, which included customer visits, event sponsorships and savings walks.

The principal objective of the Savings Fiesta is to promote savings and create an opportunity for the Bank to generate greater awareness of the many products and services it offers. All new accounts opened with Commercial Bank in June 2013 are eligible for an ATM cum Debit Card free of charge as well as gifts from Sri Lanka’s largest private bank.

In its second week, the campaign is attracting many new customers to the Bank and branches are actively promoting the savings habit amongst the general public.

Pictured here are some of the activities that took place on the second weekend of the Commercial Bank Savings Fiesta.

The Commercial Bank has renovated 39 lamp posts lining the road to the historic Rangiri Dambulu Vihara at Dambulla, revisiting one of its community projects of 15 years ago. The Bank originally built the ornate lamp posts in 1998. A recent inspection conducted as part of the Bank’s commitment to sustaining its projects, revealed that the lamp posts were in need of repairs and repainting. The Bank therefore undertook to restore the lamp posts to their pristine condition. Picture shows Commercial Bank’s AGM Properties and Services Mr. Noel Wickramasinghe unveiling a commemorative plaque at the site in the presence of the Chief Priest of the Rangiri Dambulu Viharaya Venerable Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero, Mrs. Priyanthi Perera, CSR Coordinator of the Bank and Mr. Manoj de Silva, Manager the Bank’s Dambulla Branch.